Presentation

The development and implementation of bio-refinery processes is of crucial importance to build a bio-based economy.

 - Apply fundamental concepts of chemical process’ design in biomass valorization and its approach as a raw material for energy, chemical and material’s production.

Course Coordinators:

Julio César Vargas Sáenz, Department of Chemical and Environmenal Engineering, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogota. correo-e: Esta dirección electrónica esta protegida contra spam bots. Necesita activar JavaScript para visualizarla

Juan Carlos Serrato Bermúdez, Department of Chemical and Environmenal Engineering, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogota. Esta dirección electrónica esta protegida contra spam bots. Necesita activar JavaScript para visualizarla

Course intensity and schedule:

The complete course consists of 4 colombian academic credits, 64 hours lectures. Four modules will be lectured during four weeks from 6^th of July until 29^th of July (One module per week). External non-student participants can take the complete course or selected modules.The modules will be given during four days from 8:30 am until 12:30 pm, with a 20 minutes coffee-break in between. Please note that the 20^th of July is a free day in Colombia (Independence Day).

Course evaluation:

The course evaluation for regular MSc and undergraduate students will consist on weekly course-works (15% each module, 60%) and one final team project (40%) .

Methodology

This is a four week modular course, in the English language, with theoretical expositions by lecturers and experts about the fundamental and basic aspects and the related field context, focused in thermochemical and catalytic transformations.

Week 1 (July 6^th to 9^th 2010)

Biorefineries: Green Chemistry. Concepts and types. Degraded molecules, platform molecules and one-pot conversion concepts. Technologies and applications.

Biomass: Concepts and types. Physical and chemical composition and characterization. Availability and potential. Uses and applications.

Biochemical transformation: Biological transformations: Aerobic and anaerobic fermentations. Biochemical processes: Hydrolysis and enzymatic transformation. Bioethanol production.

Physicochemical transformation Physical processes: Extraction, vegetable oil refining. Physicochemical processes: Transesterification and biodiesel production.

Thermochemical transformation Thermochemical processes: Combustion, pyrolysis, gasification, and liquefaction processes.

Week 2 (July 13^th to 16^th 2010) (A. Dufour)

Examples of thermochemical installations and valorisations concepts by energy and chemical coupling. Reactors (fixed bed, fluidised bed, etc.) and parameters of pyrolysis, gasification and hydro-liquefaction processes. Products (syn-gas, bio-oils) selectivity and composition. Reaction mechanisms (pyrolysis, tars conversion, char oxidation, hydro-liquefaction).  Mass and heat transfer mechanisms. Reactor modelling principles.

Week 3 (July 19^th, July 21^th to 23^th 2010) (A. Kiennemann)

Energy, biofuels and petrochemicals applications: from primary and secondary biomasses and intermediates-derived by thermochemical processes. Syn-gas and bio-oil treatment and up-grading in refineries uses (CO₂ sequestration, Sulfur containing compounds treatment). Catalytic transformation of biomass and derivatives (reforming, Fisher-Tropsh synthesis, methanol and alcohol synthesis, olefines synthesis, etc.).

Week 4 (July 27^th to 30^th 2010) (P. Gallezot)

Valuable chemicals and materials applications: from biomass and derivatives (natural polymers -starch, cellulose-, vegetable and animal oils, carbohydrates -glucose, saccharose-, lactic and succinic acids, glycerol) by homogeneous and heterogeneous catalytic processes (esterification, selective oxidation, hydrogenation, etc.).

Dr. ANTHONY DUFOUR, Research Scientist

Laboratoire Réactions et Génie des Procédés (LRGP),  CNRS - École Nationale Supérieure des Industries Chimiques (ENSIC), Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine (INPL), Nancy, France

http://www.ensic.inpl-nancy.fr/LRGP/

Dr. ALAIN KIENNEMANN, Distinguished Professor 

Laboratoire des Matériaux, Surfaces et Procédés pour la Catalyse (LMSPC), CNRS - École Européenne de Chimie, Polymeres et Matériaux (ECPM), Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France

http://www-lmspc.u-strasbg.fr/   

Prof.  Alain  Kiennemann (Ph.D. University of Strasbourg, 1974) is a Distinguished Professor at the University of Strasbourg since 2007 (Full Professor since 1980) of Chemical Engineering and Engineering of the Chemical Reaction. He spent a sabbatical leave as Professor Visitor at the Department of Chemical Engineering of University of Sherbrook, Canada (1978-1979) and he was named “Honorarius Professor” at the National University of Colombia in 2008. His main research activities are related to catalysis applied to energy and environment. This approach has been developed in numerous national and international projects funded by French Research Agencies (CNRS, ANR), European Union and private companies (French and International). Results of the research have been developed in several international patents, in peer review scientific journals (more than 270) and invited presentations. More than 50 PhD have been obtained under his supervision. He is reviewer of numerous journals in catalysis, chemical engineering and energy. He has participated as member at different European contracts related to catalysts efficiency for biomass gasification and to catalysts for NOx reduction.

Dr. PIERRE GALLEZOT, Emeritus Senior Researcher

Institute de Recherches sur la Catalyse et l'Environnement de Lyon, CNRS - Université de Lyon 1, Lyon, France

http://www.ircelyon.univ-lyon1.fr/en/    

Dr. Pierre Gallezot (Ph.D. University of Lyon, 1966) is an Emeritus Senior Researcher of the National Center for Scientific Research of France. He has a permanent position in the Research Institute on Catalysis and Environment of Lyon, since 1963. He spent sabbatical leaves at the Department of Chemical Engineering of University of Stanford, USA (1976), the Department of Material Science at the NASA Research Centre, USA (1982) and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, USA (1997). He was the recipient of the Ipatieff Lectureship Award at Northwestern University, USA in 1992. His main research activities are related to zeolite chemistry, nanoparticles, heterogeneous catalysis applied to organic synthesis and water treatment, and catalytic conversion of biomass and derived-biomass. This approach has been developed in numerous national and international projects funded by French Research Agencies (CNRS, ANR), European Union and private companies (French and International). Results of the research have been developed in 10 international patents, 25 reviews papers, more than 230 articles in peer review scientific journals and 110 invited presentations. He is reviewer of numerous journals in catalysis and chemical engineering.

Speakers 

Dr. PAULO CÉSAR NARVÁEZ RINCÓN, Associate Professor

 Dr. JUAN CARLOS SERRATO BERMUDEZ, Assistant Professor 

Departamento de Ingeniería Química y Ambiental, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogota

Dr. ALEXANDER GÓMEZ MEJÍA, Associate Professor

Dr. SONIA LUCIA RINCÓN PRATT, Assistant Professor 

Departamento de Ingeniería Mecánica y Mecatrónica, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogota